Vinyl Record Storage Tips

These tips on vinyl record storage come from the Library of Congress in the United States of America. They store, care for and maintain a collection of over 125,000 vinyl records. If anyone knows about proper storage of audio visual materials, such as vinyl records, it’s them.

(Although in their literature on vinyl record storage, they refer to vinyl records as ‘grooved discs’ and I, for one, find that kinda cute.)

Why Is Proper Vinyl Record Storage so Important?

Proper storage for your vinyl records is absolutely critical to the preservation of the album. That’s because vinyl records (or ‘grooved discs’…cute) are made of materials that have inherent chemical instabilities.

In other words, the world is a giant melting pot of chemicals that will react with your album slowly over time and change the very molecular fabric of the vinyl record!

So the point of all vinyl record storage is to minimize the effects of the environment on the record.

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